retrogress

retrogress
Synonyms and related words:
advance, ascend, back, back up, backslide, budge, change, change place, circle, climb, cock, come after, come last, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, disimprove, ebb, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, flow, follow, get behind, get over, get worse, go, go around, go back, go backwards, go behind, go round, go sideways, grow worse, gyrate, jerk back, lag behind, lapse, lapse back, let down, lose ground, mount, move, move over, plunge, progress, pull back, recede, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrovert, return, reverse, revert, rise, rotate, run, shift, sicken, sink, slacken, slip back, soar, spin, stir, stream, subside, throw back, trail, trail behind, travel, wane, whirl, worsen

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  • retrogress — 1819, from L. retrogress , pp. stem of retrogradi (see RETROGRADE (Cf. retrograde)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Retrogress — Re tro*gress, n. [Cf. L. retrogressus.] Retrogression. [R.] H. Spenser. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • retrogress — index decay, degenerate, deteriorate, regress, relapse, revert Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • retrogress — ► VERB ▪ go back to an earlier and typically inferior state …   English terms dictionary

  • retrogress — [re′trə gres΄, re΄trə gres′] vi. [L retrogressus, pp. of retrogradi: see RETROGRADE] to move backward, esp. into an earlier, less complex, or worse condition; decline; degenerate retrogressive adj. retrogressively adv …   English World dictionary

  • retrogress — /re treuh gres , re treuh gres /, v.i. 1. to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: to retrogress to infantilism. 2. to move backward. [1810 20; < L retrogressus ptp. of retrogradi to go back or backward, equiv. to retro RETRO + …   Universalium

  • retrogress — intransitive verb Etymology: Latin retrogressus, past participle of retrogradi Date: 1819 to move backward ; revert …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • retrogress — verb a) To return to an earlier, simpler or worse condition; to regress. b) To go backwards; to retreat …   Wiktionary

  • retrogress — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. revert, decline. See reversion, regression, deterioration. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To slip from a higher or better condition to a former, usually lower or poorer one: backslide, lapse,… …   English dictionary for students

  • retrogress — ret|ro|gress [ ,retrou gres ] verb intransitive FORMAL to become worse by returning to a situation or condition that is worse than the present one ╾ ret|ro|gres|sion noun uncount …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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